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  • There are millions receiving government payments who have come to consider them as an earned right, who of course find them inadequate, and who are outraged at the slightest suggestion of a critical re-examination of the subject. The political pressure for constant extension and increase of these benefits is almost irresistible.

    Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.202, Ludwig von Mises Institute